On the morning of September 19, Executive Director of Equal Justice Under Law, Phil Telfeyan, spoke at a We the People Rally — “Reclaiming the Constitution” — in front of the US Capitol building.

“What’s broken in our criminal justice system on so many dimensions is that we turn to criminalization and punishment first,” Phil told those gathered. “Our first instinct as a society is to punish, when really we should be thinking, ‘what will work?'”

Phil and the team at Equal Justice Under Law will continue using its platform to seek solutions to the most difficult problems facing our criminal justice system.